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BAYSWATER city council has voted to ban liquor outlets bigger than 300sqm from its suburbs. Councillors voted to amend the city’s town planning scheme to restrict large grog shops to business, showroom warehouse, light industry and general industry zones. The amendment application must now go to the WA planning commission and be signed by the…
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Bayswater city council AS flagged in the Voice last week, up to $5000 will be spent by the council to develop a “report-it” smartphone app that allows people to take photos of damage and beam it to the council, along with GPS coordinates. MORE rubbish bins will be installed at Riverside Gardens. Cr Martin Toldo…
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THE woman behind the popular Maylands and Mt Hawthorn markets is challenging Bayswater mayor Sylvan Albert at October’s council elections. Catherine Ehrhardt, who owns Blackcurrant Clothing on Railway Parade, has announced she’s contesting south ward. In her statement she takes aim at the council’s support for premier Colin Barnett’s ill-fated local government amalgamations. “My vision…
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A COLLECTION of vintage posters from the New Orleans Jazz Festival is amongst the donations to the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra since its move into the historic Maylands Town Hall. WAYJO moved in at the end of last month and has been inundated with gifts including a drum kit, a fridge and a mass of…
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TERRY KENYON wants to halve councillors’ travel and function allowances. If successful the Bayswater city councillor’s move will see the mayor’s two-year allowance cut to $15,000 and each councillor’s to $7500. Cr Kenyon is the former mayor and did not propose cuts when he was wearing the chain, but he says things have changed. “Now…
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NO official records can be found in national archives of 18 soldiers whose names are on the Maylands cenotaph. Historian Bob Corby has been helping the Maylands Historical Society identify the 110 names on the cenotaph, a symbolic “empty tomb” monument, and has so far tracked down 68 from official records. But he’s been unable…
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ANXIETY, not cyber-bullying, is the most common mental health issue affecting high school students, says psychologist Iva Filipovska. Since 2012, Ms Filipovska has been the permanent psychologist at Mount Lawley SHS and has worked in the sector for six years. “Cyber-bullying tends to be very prevalent in middle school, when kids first become exposed to…
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THE current Perth city council might’ve brought us Opera in the Park, but lord mayoral candidate Mike O’Hanlon brought us Ghostface Killah in an alleyway. Last year the 32-year-old entrepreneur—who owns toasted sandwich bar Toastface Grillah—hosted the Wu-Tang Clan rapper for a secret impromptu gig on the back of his ute in Grand Lane, outside…
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A LEBANESE cafe in Maylands may have to scrub off its $2000 mural because of laws that ban the promotion of smoking. The WA health department is investigating Rotana on Eighth Avenue—which has a sheesha lounge at its rear—to determine if it needs to remove a courtyard mural portraying clouds of smoke billowing from a…
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COMMUNITY arts programs will be cut, jobs lost and emerging artists might miss out on their big break following massive Abbott government budget cuts to the Australia Council, local industry leaders say. Three local arts company managers have told the Voice their combined losses could top $650,000 a year because of a $105 million cut…
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